Give the ax?
The crossword clue "Give the ax?" is answered by HEW, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HEW
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HEW answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- PHIRE (1 uses in xd)
Other clues for HEW
Every other clue in this collection answered by HEW, most used first.
- Chop down - used 126 times, most recently in 2026
- Chop - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut down - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Fell - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut with an ax - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Hack - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Take an ax to - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Cut - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
- Cut, as wood - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Chop up - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Use an ax - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Cut down with an ax - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Shape with an axe - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Chop down with an ax - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Fell with an axe - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Hack down - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Use an axe - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Use an axe on - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Chop with an ax - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Conform (to) - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Cut with an axe - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Go chop-chop? - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Wield an ax - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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- To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
- In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times
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